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“Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Surf #Coincidence
“We live in a very complex world.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#World
“Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Long #Growth #Doe
“What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Special #Telephones #Fax
“They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Dog #Business #Years
“Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#People #Level Playing Field #Levels
“But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.”
-- Vinton Cerf
“The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Running #Want #Making Money
“Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Kentucky #Bird #Hot
“Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#May #Digital #Needs
“There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Country #Numbers #Fundamentals
“There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Japan #Energy #China
“Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Careers #Career Change
“The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Computer
“In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Goes On #Range #Company
“Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Today #Billions #Users
“In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Tendencies #Company
“The Internet lives where anyone can access it.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Internet
“I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Nervous #Teach #Stanford
“We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Ideas #Infrastructure #Turns
“I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Believe #Giving #Power Corrupts
“The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Innovation #Lasts #Evolution
“If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Different #Needs #Tools
“In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Choices #Tolls #World
“Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Thinking #Way #Computer
“So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Effort #Bears #Given
“We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Information #Mankind
“I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#December #Computer #Ends
“Googleâ€™s objective is to organize the worldâ€™s information and to make it accessible. Unicode plays a central role in this effort because it is the principal means by which content in every language can be represented in a form that can be processed by software. As Unicode extends its coverage of the worldâ€™s languages, it helps Google accomplish its mission.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Mean #Play #Effort
“We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.”
-- Vinton Cerf

#Numbers #Internet #Speed

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